The Importance Of International Relations

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Over the past thirty years, the idea of globalization was considered as a golden policy, which many countries decided to actively embrace this idea. Not until the financial crisis exploded in 2008 did many countries, especially developed economies, change the logic of international relations, developing the zero-sum logic that boosting the relative power and wealth of developing countries bases on the crippling of developed economies driven by the factors like slower economic growth, growing rivalry and clash of national interests. However, I think it is the time that all nations need each other more than ever because the international political system has undeniably entered a period of dangerous instability and profound change, and many global…show more content…Secondly, the problems of uneven distribution of power and the international system lacking a sovereign authority contributing to make and enforce binding agreements make nations do what they want and like to do causing the difficulties in trusting and cooperate with each other. And, I think that the main goal of a country is power maximization and security, so these power seeking state under the framework of no existing binding power are much more willing to take international relations as a battle for survival. Not surprisingly, all nations will try their best to protect themselves first by seeking power and control. Even though many international level organizations have been created to balance this world, the organization itself doesn’t work well to promote the cooperation. Take United Nation as an example. Some member states consider the system as a mechanism for promoting a particular hegemonic order favoring the powerful and rich countries. And, the UN is severely limited in its abilities to interfere with world affairs as a result of the inhospitable political climates surrounding and changing configuration of world politics. The drafters of the Charter couldn’t foresee the frequent change of the balance of initiative, authority, activity and accomplishment among the UN’s major deliberative bodies, which greatly undermine the binding power of the Charter. Difficulty of Group 77 within UN in reaching common interest due to the different economic needs and levels of development does harm to the global cooperation. Self-interested national behavior couldn’t contribute to the smooth and effective functioning of the UN. But back to

Modernization has allowed more elaborate systems of social, economic and political structures. There are new trends, which emerge as a result of advancement in technology and infrastructure. Globalization is one such trend that was facilitated by the advancement in the transport and communication, plus the new technologies (Steger 2009). This is when a business move from the domestic markets to the international markets. Globalization started some several centuries ago but has become an important

Throughout history the international monetary system has undergone profound changes and constant evolution. During the sixteenth to the mid-eighteenth century Mercantilism was the predominant system in which power and increased wealth mostly gold, silver and raw materials from the colonies. It was a period in which the "wealth was power, and power was wealth."
Followed mercantilism began the period of industrialization or the British Industrial Revolution. This period was characterized because

debate whether globalization is undermining the monopoly of local power of a sovereign state. This debate is due to the fact that the term globalization itself is subjective and broad. There are two distinct approaches in this debate. Hyper globalists argue that the demise of the state sovereignty is the product of globalization. On the other hand, sceptics reject the idea of the “globaloney” of the globalization: they emphasize on the importance of the sovereign state in the international politics (McGrew

I will first define the term ‘Globalization’ in order to avoid the blemish of misrepresentation or overgeneralization. Hence, the term has been defined in several ways, by various scholars and academia, but for this paper, I shall limit it to the following definitions by Kennedy and Beck. .
Kennedy defines globalization as primarily integrative structures, he went further discussing that globalization of economic structures means local and national governments eventually cede control of

Globalization is the growing interdependence of the world's people that involves the integration of economies, technologies, and cultures (Bradshaw). It is described as the increased movement of people, knowledge and ideas, and goods and money across national borders that have led to the increased interconnectedness among the world. Globalization is often thought of in economic terms but as we know there are three major components implicated with this idea including: economics, politics, and

Throughout the world system, there are over one hundred and ninety diverse countries with ranging cultural differences. Each of these countries are diverse in their own right and they vary in economic, political, and social aspects. Many nations possess their own national identity, which fosters a great sense of diversity. These countries have differences in culture, economics, politics, and social policy. However, amongst the several differences that many countries embrace, there are some similarities

Globalization is not a new phenomenon as it was introduced by the philosopher Hegel. The term became popular and widely used in 1980s in academic circles. Globalization is a process of interaction and integration among peoples, companies, and government of different nations. It is a process driven by international trade and investment and aided by information technology. Globalization is defined as “a social process in which the constraints of geography on social and cultural arrangements recede

Globalization contains various aspects of meanings, it is a spontaneous, uncontrolled process of ever more intense integration of the world’s countries in a single economic system. According to the definition of the word of ‘Globalization’ by the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the globalization is a developing economic interdependence of countries globally as the consequence of the increasing volume and nature of tariff transaction in goods or services. Moreover, the development of advance technology

Globalization and localization are two conflicting trends in international politics today. Globalization is the spread of peoples, activities, norms, ideas, goods, services, and currencies from one area of the world to another. (Rosenau 15) Localization is the narrowing of horizons and the confinement of peoples, activities, norms, ideas, goods, services, and currencies to a particular geographic area. (Rosenau 16) Globalization and localization affect the world’s countries in three main areas, politics

In "The Complexities and Contradictions of Globalization," James Rosenau discusses the concepts of "globalization" and "localization." International politics offers many examples of both of these concepts, those of which will be discussed in this essay. These concepts can be somewhat misleading, however. "Globalization" is not the same as globalism, which "points to aspirations for a state of affairs where values are shared by or pertinent to all the world’s more than 5 billion people, their environment